Advocate ANSHUMAN DUBEY

बार कौंसिल ऑफ इंडिया रूल्स के पार्ट IV के चैप्टर II के सैक्शन 7 नियम 47-52 में एक एडवोकेट पर अन्य व्यवसायिक गतिविधियाँ करने पर कुछ प्रतिबंध लगाए गए हैं, ये निम्न प्रकार हैं – Section VII-Restriction on other Employments 47. An advocate shall not personally engage in any business; but he may be a sleeping partner in a firm doing business provided that in the opinion of the appropriate State Bar Council, the nature of the business is not inconsistent with the dignity of the profession. 48. An advocate may be Director or Chairman of the Board of Directors of a company with or without any ordinarily sitting fee, provided none of his duties are of an executive character. An advocate shall not be a Managing Director or a Secretary of any company. 49. An advocate shall not be a full-time salaried employee of any person, government, firm, corporation or concern, so long as he continues to practise, and shall, on taking up any such employment, intimate the fact to the Bar Council on whose r

Now, a law degree and enrolment with respective state Bar Councils will not be enough to be a practising lawyer. Wary of the tendency of law graduates to switch careers after being enrolled, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has introduced a new rule mandating a certificate of practice for advocates i.e. BCI Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015. The BCI, at a joint meeting of the representatives of all state bar councils, had  expressed concern over the growing exodus of lawyers, many of them who shift to other jobs without informing the professional body. An Advocate would not be entitled to practice law unless he holds a valid certificate of practice issued either under BCI All India Bar Examination Rules or the newly amended BCI Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015. The Certificate of Practice has to be renewed once every five years. According to the BCI, the legal profession is slipping out of the hands of practising advocates. The va